Ray Basile’s goal this season is to teach his young Triton Central squad to play fast. With that, the veteran coach knew his volleyball team would struggle getting up to speed.
Now 11 matches into the season, the Tigers are rolling right along. On Tuesday at Warren Central, Triton Central swept the Warriors, 25-19, 25-16, 25-15 to improve to 7-4.
Maddy Brown had a team-high 12 kills, pushing her season total to a team-best 113. Seven more Tigers had at least one kill.
Hallie Schweitzer (five aces) and Julia Sanders (four) combined for nine aces.
Sanders had a team-high 15 digs to push her season total to 250.
Setters Kate Isley, 16 assists, and Maia Harris, four assists, have a combined 257 assists this season.
Triton Central has won five of its last six matches.
Warren Central is 2-8.
In other prep events Tuesday:
Girls Golf
Indian Creek 211, Edinburgh 216, Southwestern 223
At Tameka Woods, Hannah Emenhiser shot 6-over-par 42 to lead Indian Creek to the win. Ciara Green (52), Bailey Dowty (57) and Allison Vavul (60) completed the Braves’ scorecard.
For Edinburgh, Izzy Richardson carded 49 to finish ahead of Macie Blandford (52), Hannah Pile (56) and Jillan Turner (59).
Lily Kerber matched her season-best round of 47 to lead Southwestern. Alison Muck (53), McKinley Correll (56) and Sydney Griffin (67) also competed Tuesday.
New Palestine JV 220, Morristown 252
At Hawk’s Tail, Hanna Beller shot 51 to lead New Palestine’s junior varsity team to a victory over the Yellow Jackets.
Also for New Palestine, Janie Hamilton shot 53, Lily Kirchner followed at 57 and Ava Hasecuster and Rachel Hamilton each shot 59.
Delaney Cornn led Morristown with 56. Also on the scorecard were Ashlee Ballinger (61), Mollie Runnebohm (67), McKinley Kile (68) and Clara Hale (71).
Triton Central Inc., Monrovia Inc.
At Hawk’s Tail, each Indiana Crossroads Conference school only had two available golfers.
Led by Brooke Farley’s 47, Monrovia defeated Triton Central, 107-109.
Boys Soccer
Batesville 1, Shelbyville 0
At Batesville, the Bulldogs (8-2) scored in the game’s final 15 minutes to end Shelbyville’s five-match win streak.
Jalen Hounshell was credited with nine saves in goal for the Golden Bears (6-3).
Batesville avenged an Aug. 28 loss to Shelbyville in the championship game of the Shelbyville Invitational. After a 1-1 tie at the end of regulation and overtime, the Golden Bears prevailed 8-7 on penalty kicks.
Shelbyville’s junior varsity defeated Batesville, 2-1. Trent Todd and Aiden Helfer scored goals for Shelbyville.
Girls Soccer
Pendleton Heights 3, Shelbyville 1
At Shelbyville, the visiting Arabians (5-1-1, 2-0 Hoosier Heritage Conference) scored a pair of first-half goals and never trailed.
Isabelle Phillips scored twice and Katie Coleman had Pendleton Heights’ third goal with assists by Phillips, Ava Chamberlin and Zoe Welch.
Shelbyville’s only goal came from Ava Wilson – her fifth of the season. Sophie Parker collected her 10th assist on the goal.
Macey Cooley was credited with 18 saves for Shelbyville (2-3-1, 1-2 HHC).
The Golden Bears host Triton Central Thursday.
In the junior varsity match Tuesday, Liz Herrberg scored twice to lead the Arabians to a 4-1 victory.
Kincade Dorsey scored Shelbyville’s lone goal.
Speedway 11, Triton Central 0
At Speedway, the Class A, No. 7-ranked Sparkplugs scored seven first-half goals to cruise to the ICC victory.
Speedway improved to 7-0 this season and 2-0 against conference foes.
Triton Central lost its fifth straight to fall to 1-5 (0-3 ICC).
Boys Tennis
Triton Central 4, Hauser 1
At Triton Central, Tucker Hutchinson improved to 8-4 at No. 2 singles this season for the Tigers (7-5) with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Caleb Wallace.
Both of TC’s doubles teams also stand at 8-4 after wins Tuesday.
At No. 1 doubles, Avram Rund and Quinton Potts defeated Eli Miller and Levi Gollmer, 6-3, 6-2.
Griffin Sego and Oliver Gearlds blanked Hagan Wiedersatz and Alex Bower, 6-0, 6-0.
Triton Central’s other win came at No. 3 singles where Ashton Sturm defeated Carson Rose, 6-0, 6-0.
Hauser’s only victory came at No. 1 singles where Sam Miller topped Alex Crouse, 5-7, 6-3, 10-8.
Knightstown 5, Southwestern 0
At Southwestern, the Spartans (3-2) captured seven games total off the visiting Panthers.
Hunter Steiner defeated Southwestern’s Tristan Pappano, 6-1, 6-2 at No. 1 singles.
Aiden Richardson bested Grant Emerick, 6-0, 6-1 at No. 3 singles.
And Brayden McDaniel topped Hunter Pappano at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-0.
Both of Southwestern’s doubles pairings lost 6-0, 6-1.
Southwestern got junior varsity singles match wins from Jackson Burcham and Ben Schlabach.
Rushville 5, Waldron 0
At Rushville, Waldron forfeited the No. 2 doubles match and was swept in straight sets in all three singles matches.
Marlin Hershberger defeated Lucas Shaw at No. 1 singles, 6-0, 6-1.
Sam Smith blanked Josh Kellems at No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-0.
And Cameron Jackman topped Jacob Lindsey at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-2.
At No. 1 doubles, Jensen Smith and Josh Wainwright defeated Max Jones and Matthew Thomas, 6-1, 5-7, 10-8.
Volleyball
Waldron def. Indiana Deaf, 25-22, 25-15, 21-25, 25-7
At Indiana Deaf, Waldron got 15 kills from Madalyn Hudnall, 11 from Kaylee Young and eight from Mackenzie Shaw to improve to 7-5 this season.
With starting setter Emily Tyree out with an illness, Josee Larrison stepped into the varsity role and had 26 assists.
Megan Bogemann led Waldron with 12 digs.
ZaniBelle Hoglind led Indiana Deaf (5-5) with seven kills and six aces. Nicholle Bradach had 17 digs and Seanna Baird collected 18 assists.
New Castle def. Shelbyville, 17-25, 26-24, 25-19, 25-23
At Shelbyville, the host Golden Bears (4-5, 0-1 HHC) won the first set but then dropped the next three to the Trojans (4-4, 1-0 HHC), winners of four straight.
Jaidyn Tackett led Shelbyville with 14 kills. Emily Parker finished with 13 kills and 12 digs.
Madison Bassett had three blocks. Emma Nolley earned a team-high 17 digs. And Gracie Leffler notched 31 assists.
